Disney+ “ad-free” plans can still show ads before and after playback - Dexerto
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Disney+ has updated its subscriber agreement to allow advertising before and after movies and shows across every subscription tier.
    • tempest@lemmy.caEnglish
      45·
      3 days ago

      Seriously. I’m letting my crunchy roll subscription expire because they constantly log me out and lately the content won’t play in Firefox on Linux.

      You know what always works and never has issues? Anime pirate sites with an ad blocker. Sometimes the subtitles are better as well.

      • RustyShackleford@piefed.socialEnglish
        19·
        3 days ago

        I canceled mine for this log out issue too not to mention the fact its choices are getting worse. And I’ve gotten so old, I didn’t even know there were anime pirate sites with subtitles lol. Really?

      • QueenHawlSera@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        Amazon signed me up for CrunchyRoll against my will, charged me ten dollars for it. Don’t know how many months this has been going on.

        • adarza@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          they have a lot of add-on subscription services you can tack-on to your prime, and if you’re not paying attention when you’re clicking you can quite easily end up with one or more of those.

          • QueenHawlSera@piefed.socialEnglish
            1·
            2 days ago

            A friend of mine using the account clicked a free trial, specifically checked “do not subscribe” it subscribed anyway and took me months to notice

  • Switorik@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    44·
    3 days ago

    I pay extra for no ads. If you put ads in the ad free tier, I’ll find alternative methods to watch ad free.

    • binarytobis@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      I’m willing to pay for a convenient, ad-free experience. It seems obvious to me that the company should know they will lose their customers by forcing ads. But I guess most of the population is crazy.

      • grissino@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        They always do a cost-benefit analysis for this sort of thing. It is our responsibility to prove them wrong.

  • topperharlie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    2 days ago

    nothing works when MBA CEOs think that is reasonable or achievable to grow at least 20% year over year forever.

    It is mathematical impossibility and yet these fucking monsters keep becoming millionaires by destroying companies and making everything in life miserable to achieve it.

    Keep pirating my good people.

  • SW42@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    3 days ago

    They just fucking can’t get enough. Welp, I’m already sailing the seven seas. Not because of the money, it’s because I’m morally obligated to

  • frostypanda@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    15·
    3 days ago

    Sometimes I can’t tell if these decisions are greed, or just rich people trying to make the world a more miserable place.

    There’s going to be massive ‘attempts’ to crack down on piracy soon, because in this economy, a lot of people are going to just stop putting up with this (and when I say a lot, I don’t even mean close to the majority,but even optimistically 5% of people dropping this stuff would be huge).

    • adarza@lemmy.caEnglish
      7·
      2 days ago

      it’s greed. all greed. gotta keep the numbers going up. they’ve already sucked-up all the interested viewers so significant subscriber gains are out… only ways that are left is to shed content (which they’ve done–just flat out delete their own shit and not even shop it around) and raise rates like they do whenever their cfo takes a dump.

    • fonix232@fedia.io
      71·
      2 days ago

      The problem is that streaming cannot be profitable at scale. Not for a company that considers it a delivery channel instead of its own branch of tech, marketing, etc.

      And once you can’t offset the expenses with the constant increase of user numbers… this happens.

      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        it never was from the get-go, they thought it would be an endless supply of subbing from covid. also hard to stay when the seasons are so short, and very long hiatuses in between.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      i think cracking down on privacy is already in the works, but hasnt fully formalized by the gop yet. they will probably try to sneak it intoa bill when nobody paying attention.

  • MrSulu@lemmy.mlEnglish
    17·
    3 days ago

    The “Bait and switch” is a game playable by both sides!
    Get yerr sea legs!

  • Beth@piefed.socialEnglish
    12·
    3 days ago

    Picked the plan I did because it was no ads and my kids like some of the shows. Lol. I will tell them they have 3 weeks so get watching. These streaming services think they are needed when they are just convenient for people like me with very little time to circumvent. I will pay 20 for a service but fuck if I’m watching ads if I’m already paying.